In this module students will appreciate how the rapid growth of technology has impacted on the development of mobile phones in a relatively short period of time. Students will understand why mobile phones have changed so rapidly and the repercussions of this on environmental sustainability.

Do a quick quiz on the students personal and family use of mobile phones and what role they think mobile phones plays in society: a. What is a mobile phone? b. Do you own a mobile phone? c. Do your parents own a mobile phone? d. Do you have any old phones at home?

Design the next generation mobile phone. Students are divided into design teams to work together to design the next generation environmentally-friendly mobile phone. Within the design team students should be assigned research tasks and one team member could be thinking about how the design will be presented to the larger group.

They should be encouraged to be as imaginative as they can when covering the questions: a. What functionalities will the phone display? b. What kind of things will it be able to do? c. What environmental features will the phone have? d. What will the phone look like? e. What applications would you like to have and describe how these would work?

When students have designed the phone (via computer model, poster, drawing, model) they present their design to the class. Consider inviting a judging panel which could include the school principal, head teacher, parent representative to provide feedback to each design group.

Students should be are asked to document reflections, notes, ideas and sketches in a design journal.

Share your student work and upload the phone designs to the MusterKids Zone section on the MobileMuster website.